[编者按]统计数据质量问题已成为全社会关注的焦点,如何提高统计数据质量?各方人士已提出多种看法。本文作者从数这一最基本的概念人手，阐述了统计中的数有其独特内涵，从统计数的形成、特点和操作等方面来说明数的统计理念。统计离不开数，且处处与数有关，但统计上的数有其 [Editor’s note] The quality of statistical data has become the focus of attention of the whole society. How to improve the quality of statistical data? People from all walks of life have put forward various opinions. The author, counting on this most basic concept manpower, elaborates on the statistical concepts in which statistics have their own unique meanings, and which illustrate the formation, characteristics and operation of statistics. Statistics can not be separated from the number, and everywhere with the number, but the statistics have its own